Management Detail

Weevil, Rough Strawberry Root

Rough Strawberry is one of many root weevil species that can be found in strawberries. But Rough strawberry root weevil, unlike most of our other pest weevil species, lay many of their eggs in late summer/early fall. They also tend to feed at the base of the plants and in the detritus. This has allowed them to escape many of the insecticide controls used in spring. Adult Rough strawberry root weevils can still be present after harvest and control of Rough Strawberry root weevils should take place during field renovation, making every effort to get the control material to penetrate the plant canopy to reach the target insect at the base of the plant. Eggs that were laid in the soil will hatch into young larvae that begin feeding on roots. Root weevil larvae overwinter two to eight inches deep in the soil.